{"id":2720,"date":"2017-09-08T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2017-09-08T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:52:07","slug":"if-you-want-help-from-equifax-there-are-strings-attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":"If you want help from Equifax, there are strings attached"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Equifax isn&#8217;t promising help fixing your credit: <\/strong>Equifax will agree only to monitor your credit, not help you fix any problems arising from the hack. &#8220;We do not offer, provide, or furnish any products, or any advice, counseling, or assistance, for the express or implied purpose of improving your credit record, credit history, or credit rating,&#8221; the company in its 7,200-word <a href=\"https:\/\/trustedidpremier.com\/static\/terms\" target=\"_blank\">terms and conditions<\/a>. &#8220;By this we mean that we do not claim we can &#8216;clean up&#8217; or &#8216;improve&#8217; your credit record, credit history, or credit rating.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/08\/technology\/equifax-monitoring-services\/index.html\">If you want help from Equifax, there are strings attached &#8211; Sep. 8, 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-07\/three-equifax-executives-sold-stock-before-revealing-cyber-hack\"><span class=\"lede-text-only__highlight\">Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Reveale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach that may have compromised information on about 143 million U.S. consumers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equifax isn&#8217;t promising help fixing your credit: Equifax will agree only to monitor your credit, not help you fix any problems arising from the hack. &#8220;We do not offer, provide, or furnish any products, or any advice, counseling, or assistance, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}